Since I was 16, I have been fascinated by Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. I have read the novel multiple times and have often visited Emily Brontë's birthplace. This village (Haworth) is located in West Yorkshire (Great Britain) and is surrounded by the Yorkshire Moors. I am currently working on a visual impression of this book. My connection to the book lies primarily in the character of Heathcliff and the overwhelming setting in which the story takes place.

Although Wuthering Heights is often called a love story, it is much more than that. It is a story about a youthful love, abandonment, revenge, the ‘human condition’, and social mobility. The combination of spiritual elements with the mystery of the Yorkshire Moors makes the novel unique and is widely regarded as one of the greatest in English literature.

“This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.”